Extract all the text from a PDF instantly, then copy it or download it as a TXT file.
Copy or save the text of any PDF in three quick steps.
Drag and drop a PDF, or tap to pick one from your device.
The text of every page is extracted automatically in your browser.
Copy it to the clipboard or save it as a .txt file.
Your PDF is read locally in your browser. It is never uploaded to a server.
No waiting in a queue. Text is extracted as soon as you add the file.
Lines and paragraphs are rebuilt, and you can add page separators to see where each page starts.
If your PDF is a scan with no real text, we tell you and point you to the OCR tool.
Upload your PDF and the text of every page appears automatically. Then copy it to your clipboard or download it as a .txt file.
Only if the PDF contains real, selectable text. A scanned PDF is just pictures of pages, so there is no text to extract. When we detect this we tell you, and you can use our OCR PDF tool to recognise text from the scanned images instead.
The result is plain text. Line breaks and paragraph gaps are reconstructed as closely as possible, but fonts, images and table borders are not included. Multi-column pages and tables may come out as flowing lines of text.
Yes, as long as the PDF stores the text as real characters. The reading order of right-to-left text depends on how the PDF was created, so check the result for important documents.
There is no limit set by us. Very large PDFs depend on your device memory and may take longer, because everything is processed locally in your browser.
No. The extraction runs inside your browser, so your document is never uploaded, stored or shared. That makes it safe for contracts and other private files.